Here’s a new wrinkle in e-mail scams. It plays on your curiosity to find out who has a secret crush on you. If you click on the care2.com link, you will be taken to a personal message that is shown after this e-mail:
917595 sent you an eCard from Care2! Click on the following link to view your eCard, or paste it into your browser:
http://www.care2.com/send/pickup/1311-62411-134424-2729
This Care2 eCard was sent November 8, 2009 and will be available for 14 days.
Warm wishes,
www.Care2.com
Where spreading love & laughter helps save the world.
Every time you send a FREE Care2 eCard you save a square foot of rain forest. Learn More.
Here is the e-card message you will receive. Note that it informs you that you “may have to use a CC (Credit Card) or a debit card for verification. THIS WILL END UP BEING A SURPRISE CHARGE ON YOUR ACCOUNT. DO NOT SUPPLY ANY FINANCIAL INFO TO THIS TYPE OF SCAMMER. Here’s what the card will say:
The next e-Card message will display this personal message:
n4y7h4r
Hi Barry… This is difficult for me to do because I’m shy..but I have a crush on you. I’ve never been able to tell you for reasons which you would quickly identify as obvious if you knew who this was. With that said I want you to guess who I am and approach me yourself.
To help you out with your guessing I made a few pictures and videos with Barry written on my body. They’re kind of risque photos so I had to make a profile at www.megafriendly.com (copy & paste or type www.megafriendly.com into your web browser). My username in the members area is BarryandME09. It’s a free website but you might need a CC or Debit to verify your age because I had to. Sigh.
But anyway sign up at www.megafriendly.com and once you are inside search for me. I want you to guess who I am and then approach me yourself. I’m shy and this is the bravest thing I’ve probably ever done but you need to do the rest.
Kisses
Secret Admirer
p4b2e0k5q8m1u9e1v8g0
If you now enter the www.megafriendly.com URL into your browser and click search, it will quickly make the scam clear: This is a web cam girl’s site. And their goal is to get your financial info so they can charge you later!!

The thing to remember here is NEVER to provide any further actions. DO NOT fill out the financial info even though it says “$0 charge for age verification”.
There has been a rash of Internet frauds perpetrated by offshore Porno websites in Great Britain. Marks are selected from ‘casual encounter’ ads appearing on Craig’s List and a few other sites. This fraud is presented here in detail.
Here’s How These Scammers work:
The fraud begins with a response to an ad on Craig’s List and, at least initially, appears to be a legitimate response from an interested party. The first response looks like this:
** CRAIGSLIST ADVISORY — AVOID SCAMS BY DEALING LOCALLY
** Avoid: wiring money, cross-border deals, work-at-home
** Beware: cashier checks, money orders, escrow, shipping
** More Info: http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams.html
Hey! Just checking if the ad is real. I was very interested. Please get back to me as soon as possible.
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This message was re-mailed to you via: pers-5gywq-1438659929@craigslist.org
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If you respond to this ad (NOT RECOMMENDED) Here’s what comes next:
Hi (your name), glad to hear you’re real! I’m interested in hearing more about you and possibly us, hehe. How does that sound? (your name), it’s Tuesday and I need to find someone quick. I hope you are the one. I have one concern though. Before we go any further I’d like to make sure you’re at least eighteen. I am a little uneasy about
meeting up with someone who I haven’t check’d out. My friends use a
service that verifies that men are ok to meet and are of age.
So (your name), I’m at the site now and they generated a link for me to send to you:
http://www.vernow.com/?=1068
You will be able to see my pic on there too. I have more pics for
you, but only after you verify your age. Btw, older guys is a
turn-on. As soon as you do it, will e-mail u my phone number and we’ll make plans. I
promise… thky for understanding. I hope to be talking on the phone with you soon! Later. (Some grammar corrected for easier readability).
Now, if you click on the blue link she supplies, you will be taken to a website called:
Vernow.com
Someone you met online has sent you here to verify your age. Vernow.com is a service that helps you verify the age of anyone you come in contact with online, FOR FREE.
Step One – Please Verify Your Information
Please wait while we verify your information.
Click the Submit Button below when you are finished!
Your friend, Jennifer Bensen is online and waiting to receive the confirmation email that we will send once you finish this last step!
Sender’s Details
Note from Sender: Hey, thank you for verifying your age for me. My friend uses this site all the time and says it helps her feel safer. I’ll feel more comfortable talking dirty and sending you my *other* pics once I receive confirmation that you are at least 18. You never know who you’re chatting with online! I’m glad you understand my prediciment and I hope to talk to you soon. I’ll email you once this site sends me the confirmation email that you’ve verified. xoxoxo – Jennifer |
Name: Jennifer Bensen Gender: Age: 20 – 30 Request Sent: |
Testimonials (show)
“Vernow.com was so easy to use and kept me safe when chatting with men online. I am confident that I am speaking with an adult every time I use Vernow.com”
Mary G. Saratoga Springs, NY
“These days you can never be too safe. Vernow.com is extremely easy to use. All I have to do is send a link to a guy I’ve met online and Vernow.com takes care of the rest. After he verifies his age, Vernow.com alerts me via email. My potential date and I can be adults and not worry about what we talk about. Thank you Vernow.com!”
Jessica F. Boise, ID
“When I posted a personals ad to Craigslist for the first time I was bombarded with responses. Even guys who sent pictures and claimed to be 18+ didn’t convince me. I use Vernow.com every time!”
Jim M. Cincinnati, OH
“You never know who you’re chatting with online. Age is a huge concern for me that’s why I use Vernow.com.”
George L. Fresco, CA
“The internet is filled minors. You would be stupid not to protect yourself with Vernow.com. It only takes a few minutes of your time and might even save your ass one day!”
Kelly J. Tallahassee, FL
© Vernow.com 2009 | All Rights Reserved
Filling in this simple form and pressing NEXT brings you to a page that
Asks you again to submit your credit/debit card info for age verification purposes only. (DON’T EVEN CONSIDER IT UNLESS YOU WANT TO THROW AWAY SOME HARD EARNED MONEY!!)
Once you do submit that info, you will receive a confirmation telling you that your info has been accepted. It looks like this:
(YourName),
Member ID: 34134089
Cost: $0.00 (NOTE THIS)
Your membership has been activated.
Site name: Amateur Site HD
Members URL: http://www.maingateway.com/lockdown/159/
Username: gg9pbke7u
Password: hx3mneg3q
Any charges appearing on your credit card statement will be discretely billed as: WEB-FEECHECK.COM
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Have questions? Need help? We are here to help 24/7.
Web Site: http://www.web-feecheck.com
E-mail: help@web-feecheck.com
Toll Free: 888-811-2544
Should you click on the www.maingateway.com link above, you will immediately be taken to a porno website that you probably didn’t expect on their sign-in page. The pictures of videos offered are NOT reproduced here. However, at the very bottom of that page, there is the name and address of the owner in the U.K.:
Perkindale LTD
15 RoseberryTerrace
DH85RT Consett
United Kingdom
By now, the realization that you’ve been had hasn’t settled in quite yet. You may even write to Jennifer again and ask, “what’s up with the porno stuff?” Don’t be shocked. You’ll never hear from her again!! In about an hour, you will discover that your bank account or PayPal account has been charged for $37 +. This lovely-looking lady that was falling all over her e-mail to get with you is nothing but bait—a “shill” for the U.K. folks in Consett. Your only hope now is if you saved copies of all this documentation and file a fraud claim with PayPal. But it will take time.
The moral here is: If something seems too good to be true on the Internet, it undoubtedly is. Your money is now in their pockets and you can’t do anything much about it!
NOTE: These scams abound on the web. They will play on your lust, naivety or anything else they can think of to get you to fill-in that form. DON’T!!
AGE VERIFICATION THAT REQUIRES YOUR FINANCIAL INFO IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN OUT-AND-OUT SCAM!
This is an attempt to extract your personal information via e-mail. While it seems to be legitimate, Bank of America never request that you send this kind of information via e-mail or sends e-mail notifications of this type. 8/19/2009 7:13 PM

Dear Valued Customer :
We recently have determined that different computers have logged in your Bank of America Online Banking account, and multiple password failures were present before the logons. We now need you to re-confirm your account information to us. If this is not completed by September 1, 2009, we will be forced to suspend your account indefinitely, as it may have been used for fraudulent purposes. We thank you for your cooperation in this manner. In order to confirm your Online Bank records, we may require some specific information from you.
To restore your account, please Sign in to Online Banking.thank you for using Bank Of America Online Service.
Your account might be place on restricted status. Restricted accounts continue to receive payments, but they are limited in their ability to send or withdraw funds. To lift up this restriction, you need to login into your account (with your username or SSN and your password), then you have to complete our verification process. You must confirm your credit card details and your billing information as well. All restricted accounts have their billing information unconfirmed, meaning that you may no longer send money from your account until you have reactive your billing information on file. Sign in to Online Banking
Thank You.
Please do not reply to this message. If you have any questions about the information in this e-Bill, please contact your biller. For all other questions, call us at 800-887-5749.
Bank of America, N.A. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender![]()
© 2009 Bank of America Corporation. All rights reserved
© 2009 Bank of America Corporation. All rights reserved
JOB SEEKERS SHOULD BE AWARE THAT A RECENT DISPATCHER’S POSITION ADVERTISED ON CRAIG’S LIST IS A SCAM. THE COMPANY IS LEGITIMATE (N. Brown Group, PLC) BUT THAT’S WHERE ANY LEGITIMACY ENDS. IF YOU RESPOND TO THIS AD, THE E-MAIL BELOW IS WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE. THE NOTICE IN RED THAT FOLLOWS WAS SENT TO THE COMPANY TO ALERT THEM TO THIS SCAM IN THEIR NAME:
N Brown Group plc
Griffin House,
40 Lever Street,
Manchester,
M60 6ES,
United Kingdom.
Dear Applicant,
We received your application for the job posted on Craig’s List website.
Thank you for your interest in a position with N Brown Group plc. Our
HR managers have gone through your resume and you have been short
listed for the offer pending final approval. Your reference number is
A116.
Our central Head Office is home to our Marketing, Merchandising,
Finance, IT, and Human Resources. Our Warehousing and Distribution
operations (Fulfilment Logistics) are based at our sites in the Oldham
and Glossop area. Our Customer Service team is based at our new
contact centre, Martin House within the MEN Arena. In addition to Home
Shopping we have a Financial Services Division, First Financial, who
market and sell a range of Financial Products.
N Brown Group plc is a trading style of J D Williams & Company
Limited, the UK’s leading direct home shopping company, operating over
20 successful catalogue brands. Our catalogues offer a huge selection
of Art, Educational materials, clothing and other products for all
ages and sizes.
All our clothes are designed to provide the best fit
at the best value, and we are specialists in the area of larger size
womenswear.
The company was founded in 1875 by James David Williams, who in 1882
was the first to make use of the UK ’s parcel post service, to send
his company’s products direct to his customers. The formula of
providing quality, fashionable, value for money clothing direct to
customers proved increasingly popular towards the latter end of the
20th Century and J D Williams enjoyed significant growth. This
continuing growth has ensured J D Williams is the most successful
direct home shopping company in the UK today, with over 2 million
customers and 4,000 employees. For more information about us, please
visit www.nbrown.co.uk
Our Mission
We are expanding to the United States, so we want to reach out to
people in the United States and advertise our new product by
distributing the company’s catalogs to individual, offices, private
and public places. Successful candidates will work either weekdays or
weekends depending on choice and get paid weekly
Job Description
Our duties is to help them manage their finance, see to their daily
spending, pay bills sometimes on their behalf & send out checks on
their behalf. Your own job is to print out the checks whenever we need
you to print it online and drop them off for shipping. We’ll give your
a procedure to set up the online account which you’re going to use for
the printing whenever you need to work. We’ll also provide you the
courier shipping labels (UPS SERVICE) for the drop off of the
check. Below are materials you need to set up to get started as soon as
possible.
*Magnetic Versa Ink
*Versa Printer (Not needed if you have a printer at home already)
*Business size check Paper
*http://www.avanquestusa.com/ check_writing/default.asptr1=
AQ_US_PP_GO_CKS&gclid= CIvB9pTo7JQCFQqdnAod3w1Arg (Checksoft 2009
Platinum (Premier) ) Version to download
This are what you need to get ready in order to get started. We
understand you will need to pay for all this material, kindly do so and
let us know much it cost you to get everything set up so that you can
have your money back. Concerning your pay per week, we’re offering you
$700 per week for a start & we’ll increase it later in the future
depending on how reliable, dependable and hard working you’re.Your
salary will be sending to you via western union money transfer or
Money gram money transfer
Your Responsibilities:
* You must be efficient
* Applicant must be self motivated
Compensation
You will be paid $700 per week.
At this time, we will like to know how often you get on the internet
because our job requires much checking of your e-mail.
Await your immediate response
Regards,
Mr. James Scott
Personnel Manager
N Brown Group plc
Company Reg Number: 814103
VAT Reg Number: 148 8796 03
Tel: +442086918225
Fax: +442087112636
The attached e-mail is being disseminated in the USA in response to inquiries from an ad on Craig’s List offering a $700/week dispatcher’s job. It is obviously a scam in your name and using the credibility of your beautiful website. I suspect that their telephone response # is in fact a cell phone. You can read more about this scam at: www.scam.com. The e-mail below is what was sent to me following a e-mail to their ad asking only, “where are you located?”
Hey, thank you for verifying your age for me. My friend uses this site all the time and says it helps her feel safer. I’ll feel more comfortable talking dirty and sending you my *other* pics once I receive confirmation that you are at least 18. You never know who you’re chatting with online! I’m glad you understand my prediciment and I hope to talk to you soon. I’ll email you once this site sends me the confirmation email that you’ve verified. xoxoxo – Jennifer